FORCE

Gravity

MEDIUM

Syringe ink drops on drawing board

“The hush’d wind wails with feeble moan,
Like infant charity.”
Joanna Bailie, Orra, Act II., Scene 1.
The sound of silence interrupted by a dripping tap
slowly releasing single droplets. A gentle breeze
nudging the elements of a wind chime. Nothing
is ever still. This automated drawing machine
produces its gestures by way of an interweaving
relation between a brush and syringe hung like
swaying wind chimes. Gravity forces ink to seep
through the syringe allowing a brush to absorb its
drops, and consequently express them onto paper
as strokes, dashes and dots. The vibrancy of the
composition’s layers, in addition to the intensity of
the image, is directly proportional to the strength
of the wind in various environments: including indoors;
a typical Spanish courtyard; and along the
coast of Barcelona. It captures the essential feel of
the air that touches each passenger’s skin throughout
the space over time.